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Obituary- Wolverton, Percy 1

Percy Wolverton
Services were at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary in Topeka for Percy B. Wolverton, 79, former machinist for Trans World Airlines, who died Friday at his home in Rossville.

He was born July 24, 1886, in Painesville, Ohio. Before he retired he was employed as a machinist by TransWorld Airlines. He was a member of Rossville Bible Church.

During World War I Mr. Wolverton was employed by the federal government in the mechanization of the Army at Fort Robinson, Neb. During World War H with the late Chester R. Hughes of Kansas City, Mo., he invented the pre-rotating airplane landing wheels. In 1930 he sold the free wheeling invention to the studebaker Motor Corporation in South Bend, Ind.

His widow, Mrs. Julia Wolverton of the home, survives.

Entombment was in Mount Hope Abbey.

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